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Members of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are criticising the Danish government’s proposals to lower the age of responsibility to 14, saying that the U.N. wants the age of responsibility around the world generally raised instead.
Last week, Justice Minister Brian Mikkelsen (Cons) said that a reduction in the age of criminal responsibility to 14 was within U.N. recommendations. Although a 2007 report from the CRC termed a criminal age of between 14 and 16 as acceptable, it also called on member countries to work to increase the criminal age.
